Please can you tell me the following information:

1. The number of educational psychologists (EPs) employed by the council as of 1 January 2024, 1 Jan 2023, 1 Jan 2022, 1 Jan 2021 and 1 Jan 2020? Please provide the information for each year separately.

Information provided is for Educational Psychologist, Senior Educational Psychologist, Consultant Educational Psychologist, but not for Trainee or Assistant Educational Psychologist

2020: 8
2021: 8
2022: 11
2023: 14
2024: 16

2. How many vacant EP posts did the council have as of 1 January 2024, and as of the same date for the years 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020? Please provide the information for each year separately.

Information provided is for Educational Psychologist, Senior Educational Psychologist, Consultant Educational Psychologist, but not for Trainee or Assistant Educational Psychologist

2020: 4
2021: 6
2022: 4
2023: 4
2024: 4

3. How many posts were filled by locum, agency or temporary EPs as of 1 Jan 2024, and as of the same date for 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020? Please provide the information for each year separately.

Information provided is for Educational Psychologist, Senior Educational Psychologist, Consultant Educational Psychologist, but not for Trainee or Assistant Educational Psychologist

2020: 2
2021: 4
2022: 5
2023: 7
2024: 8

4. What is the average salary of employed EPs?

Information provided is for Educational Psychologist, Senior Educational Psychologist, Consultant Educational Psychologist, but not for Trainee or Assistant Educational Psychologist and for the FTE Substantive Salary for these posts

2020: £47,169.25 per annum
2021: £47,059.25 per annum
2022: £47,586.36 per annum
2023: £47,349.86 per annum
2024: £47,043.44 per annum

5. What is the average daily cost of employed EPs?

6. The average daily cost of the following categories of EPs:
a) Temporary.
b) Locum.
c) Agency.

7. The highest daily cost of the following categories of EPs:
a) Temporary.
b) Locum.
c) Agency.

8. What was the total spend on locum/agency/temporary EPs for the financial years 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23?

9. What is the current and projected spend on locum/agency/temporary EPs for the current financial year?

We are unable to answer questions 5 to 0 within the appropriate limit timeframe. It would exceed 18 hours work to gather the answers.

For just 6 months of 2023-2024 there were roughly 3300 transactions/invoices that would need to be investigated. Assuming it takes 5 minutes per invoice to find the information for questions 5 to 9, this would take 275 hours to obtain the data just for 6 months.